Cardinals Announce 2017 Regular Season Schedule

General view as the sun sets over Busch Stadium during a game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Arizona Diamondbacks on June 6, 2013 in St. Louis, Missouri. The Cardinals beat the Diamondbacks 12-8. (Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images)

ST. LOUIS (News release) – The St. Louis Cardinals, in conjunction with Major League Baseball’s league-wide release, today announced their 2017 regular season schedule.

For the first time since 2011, the Cardinals are slated to open the season at home, when they will host the rival Chicago Cubs on Monday, April 3. The Cardinals will also be home to close out the 2017 regular season during a weekend series against Milwaukee (Sept. 29-Oct. 1) at Busch Stadium.

The April 3 season opener with the Cubs will be the first game of a three-game series (April 3 & 5-6) with the Cubs and a season-opening six-game home stand that will also include three games against the Cincinnati Reds (April 7-9). The season opener against the Cubs will be the first between the two teams in St. Louis since 2000.

The Cardinals first road trip of 2017 will take them to Washington (April 10-12) followed by their first ever trip to new Yankee Stadium, as they will visit the Yankees for a three-game Easter weekend series (April 14-16) that will mark just their second interleague road series in the Bronx and their first since 2003.

The 20-game interleague portion of the 2017 schedule includes home-and- home two-game series with Boston (May 16-17 at Busch Stadium & August 15-16 at Fenway Park) and Kansas City (August 7-8 at Kauffman Stadium & August 9-10 at Busch Stadium). The Cardinals will host the Toronto Blue Jays (April 25-27) and Tampa Bay Rays (August 25-27) at Busch Stadium and will play a three-game weekend series at Baltimore’s Camden Yards (June 16-18) against the Orioles.

In addition to their season opening series with the Cubs, the Cardinals will also host Chicago for a three-game weekend series May 12-14 and a four-game set (Sept. 25-28) during the final week of the season.
The Cardinals will play the Los Angeles Dodgers six times during a nine-game stretch from May 23-31, visiting Dodger Stadium for three games May 23-25 before hosting the Dodgers the following week (May 29-31).
St. Louis will be home for a total of 13 weekend series in 2017: April 7-9 vs. Cincinnati, April 28-30 vs. Cincinnati, May 12-14 vs. Chicago Cubs, May 19-21 vs. San Francisco, June 9-11 vs. Philadelphia, June 23-25 vs. Pittsburgh, June 30-July 2 vs. Washington, July 7-9 vs. New York Mets, July 28-30 vs. Arizona, August 11-13 vs. Atlanta, August 25-27 vs. Tampa Bay, September 8-10 vs. Pittsburgh and September 29-Oct. 1 vs. Milwaukee.
The Cardinals are scheduled to play 50 of their 81 home games before the July 10-13 Major League Baseball All-Star break, playing 15 home games in April, 15 in May, 11 in June, 16 in July, 11 in August and 13 in Sept.-Oct. St. Louis will be home for holiday games on Memorial Day, May 29 vs. Los Angeles and Independence Day, July 4 vs. Miami.

The Cardinals will make future announcements regarding game times, ticket pricing and ticket availability for the 2017 season. To view the full 2017 regular season schedule, visit cardinals.com.